Coastal flood managers seek to anticipate future flood risk and as a result consider the adaptation of flood defences. Instead of crest heightening, dikes can be adapted to include hydrodynamic reducing vegetated foreshores to form a nature-based hybrid flood defence, for instance; at managed realignments. …

Research meeting Climate Adaptation Platform

Een oproep aan het nieuwe kabinet om in Nederland, zo mogelijk Europees verband, werk te gaan maken van strategische autonomie op onze energiemarkt. “Kies het voorbeeld van olie en niet van antibiotica. Geef dit een belangrijke plaats in de energiewet. Het zal ons in tijden van crisis enorm veel geld …

Prof. Dr. Dieter Eckstein (1939 - 2021) significantly influenced the global development of dendrochronology and the underlying science of wood biology. Eckstein’s research areas included dendroclimatology, xylogenesis, ecophysiology, and quantitative wood anatomy. His personal and collaborative work …

To study the ways in which compounds can induce adverse effects, toxicologists have been constructing Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs). An AOP can be considered as a pragmatic tool to capture and visualize mechanisms underlying different types of toxicity inflicted by any kind of stressor, and describes …

Recommender systems are widely used in today’s society, but many of them do not meet users’ needs and therefore fail to reach their full potential. Without careful consideration, such systems can interfere with the natural decision-making process, resulting in the disregard for recommendations provided. …

Humans, with some exceptions left and right, have proven to be at their best when disaster strikes hard. At least, that is our hope and appears to be our defence for the future. In the meantime, we hide and live our perfect lives in the best conditions we ever had. Conditions that make us, lazy, fat, …

The advent of the twenty-first century ushered in a new generation of fashiondesigners who merge design, artistic practice and research in a natural way. Theyuse artistic and activist interventions to revision fashion as a cultural and symbolicvalue-adding component integral to post-industrial restructuring …

Regenerative agriculture is increasingly seen as the way forward to safeguard soil fertility and with that economic, human and natural sustainability. The fashion industry, being very much reliant on inputs from the agricultural sector, can play a pivotal role in promoting regenerative practices. In …

Door een trucje van planten af te kijken, probeert het Natural Plant Defense consortium nieuwe, duurzame — en kleverige — pesticiden te ontwikkelen. ’We moeten wel een goede balans van plakkerigheid vinden.’